Irish Tea at Nourish Sequim

Yesterday, March 16th was  an Irish afternoon tea at our local organic locally sourced restaurant Nourish here in Sequim...

So happy my Honey is doing well enough with our new protein and meds schedule, and tea was exactly in the 1 hour window he can have protein at proper spacing from his medication!

This was taken last fall... with the snow just melted and spring arriving there was little in the garden this year so far...

The restaurant is a non pretentious almost industrial space... a lot different than a fancy tea room, but we are rural and this is an area mostly known for organic farms and lavender farms....

There was a choice of 2 tea menus... and we had the Dairy Free, which is always a good choice because of my allergies. Their teas are always gluten free as well.

We atarted with the tea menu... I always choose Darjeeling as it is my favorite tea. John branched out from his usual decaf black, and had a Lemon Ginger herbal. Both pots came with a tea strainer and a tea timer... mine for black tea...3 minutes; and John's for 7 minutes for the herbal.

The 3 tiered server arrived...

The savory course was Corned Beef on Caraway whole grain toast with pickled vegetable garnish...

which was very good...

and Smoked Salmon (locally caught and smoked) on crispy potate slices as this is the dairy free menu.

I don't like salmon particularly, but John said they were very good and he really like the potato base for a change from bread

The next level was Apple Tart with Raisin and Nut toppingand Chocolate Dipped Oat Flapjacks. In the US we call them oat bar cookies, but we were both raised with them as Flapjacks...

The Dairy-Free menu didn't have scones, it had the flapjacks instead...

And lastly, Chocolate Mousse. Quite good for dairy free.

We ate the sandwiches and the mousse but brought the tarts and flapjacks home and had them later.

Recently Chef Tanya and husband David, co-owners of Nourish and expat Brits were featured on a segment on Seattle King 5 TV...

and here is the link to our local paper

http://www.sequimgazette.com/business/sequims-nourish-featured-on-king5s-new-day-northwest/?fbclid=IwAR3MNxGUe8FlH9uhxadBaL04xLNIdWg7MJB-MS8PTXOM1nXR8R2YJa39kEk

and a link to the program segment on King 5 which includes Tanya cooking with recipes.

https://www.king5.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/new-day-northwest/nourish-sequims-organic-offerings-feed-the-body-and-soul/281-743ade5f-e12f-4d72-9021-a5a67203314a

Hope you have had a lovely St. Patrick's Day!